For thirty years, Harry Clewans has been making woodcuts of found objects like these and has built up an extensive library of images from which he makes prints that he cuts up and arranges to create larger and more complex compositions. Like mosaics or jigsaw puzzles, these larger works are typically comprised of hundreds of individual pieces that he fits together to form a picture, which he then adheres to a wood substrate. Just as everything in our physical environment is composed of the same matter, Harry’s large pieces are composed of the same collection of woodcut images. This approach, he hopes, communicates the idea that all things, by virtue of their makeup, are connected, and that all things participate in a cycle of composition and decomposition in which the old, the broken down, and the disposed of become material for the new.